Sam Amidon mines the ‘intensity & strangeness’ of tradition to make music uniquely his own ... but he’s mostly known for recasting traditional American folk songs into vibrant contemporary ...

The great folksong revival of the 1940s through 1960s made rural white and African American artists and their music favorites of audiences everywhere. While key figures associated with the American ...

This brother-and-brother duo may have been from the Bronx, but their involvement in the Greenwich Village folk music movement led ... who lived in the deep American South. However, title aside ...

Humans must have learned to sing early in our history because “we can find something we can call music in every society ... two recordings of the English folk song “Scarborough Fair ...

In the second instalment of his guide to the best in new, forward-thinking folk music, Patrick Clarke explores the relationship ... source material that Shirley Collins was looking at – the ...

Mississippi John Hurt, an American musician ... etc.). As with folk musician Clarence Ashley (who actually had performed at ...

Coulter has been performing and recording traditional Celtic and American folk music for more than 30 years. He studied classical guitar and earned a master’s degree in music from the San ...

Folk music is traditional music that belongs to a particular ... For example there's English folk music, Scottish folk music, American folk music, Russian folk music and so on.